Image manipulation library for PHP 5.3

This has appeared at just the right time, now I'm re-working my project's image manipulation classes. The PHP GD library functions are a nightmare for readability.<p>I'll be having a little play about with what I intend to implement and if it works out well I'll likely implement it in my project proper!<p>&#62; “Why didn’t he keep width and height as simple integer parameters in every method that needed those?” or “Why is x and y coordinates are an object called Point?”<p>Seems to me that PHP needs to turn its own primitives into objects so they can be type hinted. Trying to figure out which of a dozen number validation functions to use is an utter clusterfuck at the best of times.

It's really good to see some well engineered PHP software coming out.<p>For my projects I've moved out to Python after having dealt with legacy trash like Wordpress, Google's api libraries, over-engineered frameworks like ZF and lets just say the less said about Propel the better.<p>Code like this, Symfony 2, Doctrine 2, Lithium etc... are a breath of fresh air. Their obviously written by a group of talented devs and after cutting ties with legacy PHP versions &#60; 5.3 the future of "modern" PHP is looking bright!

Looks great, but...I clicked on "examples" and expected examples of output in addition to code examples...Please add these if you have time.

Whats\With\All\The\Backslashes? Am I only one seeing that in the examples?

There goes my unique flask-extension documentation style. :(

Just curious, is there a reason you chose GD over imlib2?<p>I've used both and I think I prefer imlib2 for flexibility and breadth, and there's already at least one imlib2 binding for PHP: <a href="http://pp.siedziba.pl/" rel="nofollow">http://pp.siedziba.pl/</a>

Besides being a great library, its an excellent example of well written PHP code.

Looks very nice, a worthy successor to <a href="http://wideimage.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">http://wideimage.sourceforge.net/</a><p>I look forward to using it.

i am so glad to be reminded of this. Now i just need to implement a filter for assetic at some point.<p>Assetic still relies on opti{png,jpeg} which i'm sure works pretty well, but also requires one to call out to an external program.